DVD: schama (holbrooke griffiths complete)

DVD: schama

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Charlie Rose with Simon Schama; Gregg Easterbrook, Jessica Mathews & David Brower (April 26, 1995)

Charlie Rose, 2006

Historian Simon Schama discusses his new book Landscape and Memory, as well as the study and writing of history and the perspectives he has gained in the process. Then, a conversation with Gregg Easterbrook, Jessica Mathews, and David Brower about the environment, Earth Day, and Easterbrook's controversial new book A Moment on the Earth. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will ...

SIMON SCHAMA'S ROUGH CROSSINGS (DVD MOVIE)

WARNER HOME VIDEO

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American Revolution. With gripping powerfully vivid story-telling Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war and into freezing inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. ...

Charlie Rose with Richard Holbrooke; Hanan Ashrawi; Simon Schama (October 30, 2000)

1 review

Charlie Rose, Inc., 2006

The Hanan Ashrawi segment
This interview is a quite unusual one for Charlie Rose as it goes with a great deal of awkwardness, and contradiction. Ashrawi is not simply a propagandist she is also a professional liar. Rose should have caught some of the most obvious ones, such as her speaking about there being a 'Palestinian state in 1947'. A second major lie is that the Palestinians as she was speaking had stopped all ...

Charlie Rose with Richard Griffiths; Simon Schama; Jonathan Schell (August 29, 2006)

2 reviews

Charlie Rose, 2006

The Simon Schama segments
Schama is one of the most well- known and distinguished living historians. He comes on Charlie Rose to talk about a very unusual and little known subject- the black slaves who during the Revolutionary War actually sided with Britain and wished to be sent there. Before this however he talks with Charlie Rose about issues of the day. When asked about a clash of civilizations he says that without ...

Simon Schama's Power of Art

54 reviews
Simon Schama

BBC Warner, 2007

EYES OF ART
Once again Simon Schama does his thing and brings to life a whole other aspect in the magical world of art. I bought this for my mother who can be a difficult DVD watcher and a particular art amateur, being an artist in her own right. She just loved it !!!! Schama's approach and presentation is as captivating as ever with so much to think through that she limited her first viewing to the first ...

Charlie Rose with Tina Brown (January 13, 1998)

Charlie Rose, 2006

Charlie talks with New Yorker editor Tina Brown for the hour. Brown has been the editor of The New Yorker for five years and during her tenure she has increased the magazine's circulation, attracted a host of great writers and hired a staff photographer -- all while maintaining an appropriate balance between the tradition of a great magazine and the demands of a new time. She talks about her work leading up to this position, including time at ...

A History of Britain - The Complete Collection

65 reviews
Timothy West, Bill Paterson

A&E Home Video, 2002

No One Tells it Like Simon Schama
There is no one quite like Simon Schama. He makes the history of Britain coherent, understandable, and unique, and he has the ability to help the viewer comprehend the great achievements of Britain while being honest, humorous, informative, clear and articulate in the presentation. His stories and visuals are very well chosen. He is one of only a few presenters of history in video - Bronowski ...